Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)
On 2022-02-15, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on
>> whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing
>> you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it.
>
>> But most people will never see rescue,
>
> Not good enough, they need to try harder to break things! :)
>
>> and with patience it's usually
>> fairly straightforward to stumble your way round the system with ls,
>> and find something to boot or chainload.
>>
>> BTW a very useful command to kick off with in Grub is:
>>
>> Grub> set pager=1
>>
>> without which it can be hard to use:
>>
>> Grub> help
>
> This is very true. It really should be the default.
To prevent text from scrolling off the screen, I learned.
> There is:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763025
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?43307
>
> Still open, but apparently overlooked. I imagine it would
> be a simple patch that probably would be accepted.
>
>
--
Reply to: